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authorKY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>2014-09-28 22:16:43 -0700
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2014-10-17 09:43:17 +0200
commit4d7fe752478f96bcdf0d54d077e98733ff6a07a9 (patch)
treeac9459977867365bab37158b4eed9bd065f80650 /drivers
parent3473692f7cd31b6fd424fb282e12bcd94c8c6ddc (diff)
hyperv: Fix a bug in netvsc_start_xmit()
[ Upstream commit dedb845ded56ded1c62f5398a94ffa8615d4592d ] After the packet is successfully sent, we should not touch the skb as it may have been freed. This patch is based on the work done by Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>. In this version of the patch I have fixed issues pointed out by David. David, please queue this up for stable. Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Long Li <longli@microsoft.com> Tested-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
index f8135725bcf6..616b4e1dd44c 100644
--- a/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -138,6 +138,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
struct hv_netvsc_packet *packet;
int ret;
unsigned int i, num_pages, npg_data;
+ u32 skb_length = skb->len;
/* Add multipages for skb->data and additional 2 for RNDIS */
npg_data = (((unsigned long)skb->data + skb_headlen(skb) - 1)
@@ -208,7 +209,7 @@ static int netvsc_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
ret = rndis_filter_send(net_device_ctx->device_ctx,
packet);
if (ret == 0) {
- net->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
+ net->stats.tx_bytes += skb_length;
net->stats.tx_packets++;
} else {
kfree(packet);